Linné´s Flora Lapponica in the second edition
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LINNÉ, CARL VON. Flora Lapponica, exhibens plantas per Lapponiam crescentes, secundum systema sexuale, collectas in itinere impensis Soc. Reg. Scient. Upsaliensis, anno 1732. instituto. Additis synonymis, et locis natalibus omnium, descriptionibus et figuris rariorum, viribus medicatis et oeconomicis plurimarum. Editioi altera, aucta et emendata. Studio & cura Jacobi Edvardi Smith. Londini (impensis B. White et filiorum, typis J. Davis) 1792.
8:o. (4, last blank), (i)-l, (1)-390, (16), (24) pp. Engraved frontispiece A. van der Laan after M. Hofman (some spotting to margin), 12 engraved folding plates (all, minor foxing, 1 small tear, some offsetting).
Contemporary brown half leather, partly worn, upper cover partly loose, split inner joint, spine with title label. Text partly foxed.
Soulsby 281 (wrong collation). Hulth 22.
Second enlarged edition, edited by J.E. Smith. The first edition appeared in 1737. The engravings printed from the original copper plates.
Provenance: Lars Bergquist (born 1930), Swedish author and diplomat.
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Auktionsnummer:
6014
Datum:
2015-06-16